Reddit's official app and new reddit are awful experiences and actively hostile to the user. It's nice to see a site that understands this.
I hate new reddit so much. I just opened it. On my 1440p monitor I see 3 posts. Old reddit I can see 18 posts on one page.
But there's more space for the beautiful ads
I hate the official app with the fire of 1,000 suns. So if my only options are using the official app or leaving the site completely I’m leaving completely✌️
Reddit's official app, and in fact Reddit's official website is a hugely compromised experience, and I suspect the only reason they haven't gone further is that they don't want to push people to the alternatives. However this latest move to restrict the available alternatives seems like the beginning of the end to me and their app and site are only going to get worse.
That's why I'm here at least!
The API changes was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I was on reddit right before the exodus from Digg, before that I used to go to Fark. So much has changed, it is sad to see it, but I guess it was inevitable. As companies grow their user base, they tend to start catering to a more generic (and bland) base and the higher ups demand never ending increase of revenue, quarter after quarter.
So many memories; great ones (Today you, tomorrow me), awful ones (Jolly Rancher), some weird ones (Waffles? Don't You Mean Carrots?), etc. I only use old.reddit with RES on Librewolf on my PC, and Redreader and Stealth on Android (FOSS apps).
I am hoping to see Lemmy grow, I wish you all reddit refugees the best of luck!
I'm tired of Reddit anyway. Corporate garbage. Just need more communities and users.
I don't want to use any app, I want to use the website. However, I'm guessing old.reddit is on the chopping block next and if they get rid of that I'm done. Lemmy's website isn't amazing (why so much whitespace wasted?) but it's a hell of a lot better than new reddit.
Joined lemmy after getting sick of reddit. The community here feels like a breath of fresh air. But disappointed at the lack of the more niche content (mostly motorsport discussion/news) but am sure that'll change with time.
disappointed at the lack of more niche content
As of now it's down to the lack of participating users in niche subs.
So, glad to have you here! With enough people starting to create discussions on stuff they enjoy this place will get livelier than ever.
Even Reddit had to start somewhere when the ability to comment was added to the site in 2005, you know.
I was half wondering if it was possible/allowed to create a bot account that "mirrors" content from certain subreddits such as r/formula1 to create an automated newsfeed for lemmy users to browse and comment on? I guess even if it were possible it'd rely on using reddit's API which is obviously soon to be a no-go
On Mastodon everyone frowned upon the Twitter mirrors, I suspect it would be the same here.
I have a question. As most of you probably already know, i reached that level on reddit where karma can be converted 1:1 to dollars (not that hard tbh), but here looks like there's no karma to farm? How can I pay my rent?
Yup. I'm here out of spite 😆
@Rhabuko @amortized_cost
Same. The API business was the push i needed to join the Fediverse. Screw em.
hopefully 21 miles of cromulent posting
it would be amazing if a site could replicate that early day reddit feeling
This is coming close, I gotta admit.
As someone who joined reddit around 2015 its pretty cool seeing a site this empty for some reason. Feels like early internet in a very cool way
The current internet is shit now. There's too much noise and not enough depth. I like the vibe here so far. This is my first post hello world etc.
And I would walk five hundred miles
and I would walk five hundred more
just to be the man who walked one thousand more
to get the fuck away from spez
Part of the Digg exodus and on Reddit for ~14 years, Old.Reddit + Reddit Enhancement Suite for PC and Reddit is Fun on Android are the only reason I lasted so long.
I'm only a 6 year clubber on Reddit, but using RIF for most of it, couldn't stand how the app was going. Nowadays it's the content as well. Going to be exploring around here now
8 years of Reddit. My only regret was ever making quality content over there.
Reddit's first party app kinda sucks. Bloated, ugly, stuttery mess.
Yea but it has ads and trackers! And 3 different chat systems! And crypto! Aren't you excited for what the PMs introduce next?!
I mean, it's more rewarding if you put more effort into it.
Yeah pretty much. I just stand can't advertising.
Advertising is literally big corporations trying to change the shape of your brain. I dislike that very much. I hope lemmy works out for me, I can't use reddit if I have to slog through their ads. Plus, I probably already see a ton of bots that I don't even realize are ads.
I would actually be willing to pay a small, reasonable monthly fee to not have to see ads and to be able to continue using Boost for Reddit like I have been for the last 7 years with the experience unchanged. What I will not do is pay to use reddit's official app without ads simply because it's going to be the only choice with their horrible fee structure that will kill all third party apps. As soon as they kill Boost, my account there goes dark...
The Apollo dev comment on this. They have a subscription model already, but would need to more than double the cost just to meet the cost of the API.
They worked it out as $2.50 per month for the average user. But I'd be willing to bet that you'd have less users using it more if it cost that much, so it would need to be higher. And then you add taxes. And even then it's all going to reddit, the dev gets nothing.
This is based on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
Yeah, I definitely saw that. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they're expecting third party app devs to basically be charging what they do for Reddit premium, which is honestly pretty ridiculous. Most people aren't going to want to suddenly have to pay anywhere near $6/month for what they had been getting for free. Reddit also screwed up by not having a way that their existing Reddit Premium users might continue having API access in third party apps with a personal token instead of making all third party app devs be brokers in the exchange. They're making the system needlessly complicated IMHO.
Just glad to have be here before the mass migration really kicks off
Yeah, I'm really hoping people do mass migrate from reddit to Lemmy. I was part of the Digg Exodus. Moving to something open source and decentralized would be huge in preventing another pointless exodus in the future whenever whatever reddit's corporate replacement decides to sell out.
Reddit is too popular now. They're going to have an IPO eventually and then it will really go down hill.
Might as well get on the ground floor of something new.
Honestly, I would even use the normal reddit website on my smartphone if they wouldn't aggressively try to make it as annoying as possible.
Fuck the reddit app it sucks cock.
wait, maybe I should give it a shot...
I'd rather crawl the 20 extra miles to a new community (and did) than use that app again. It's that bad. The reviews on Google Play are very telling. It's just a buggy mess.
Justified tbh
they learned nothing from why they got so popular in the first place (cough digg v4 cough) and it shows.
